The Wasps’ Nest: Antisemitism, Conspiracy Theory, and The Prioress’s Tale

Q2 Arts and Humanities
L. Lampert-Weissig
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Abstract:Conspiracy theories are not only forms of explanation. They are narratives designed to evoke emotional response. This essay reads the thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman “Hugo de Lincolnia” and The Prioress’s Tale as conspiracy theory narratives, examining how they use language and imagery to generate aesthetic emotions, especially fear and disgust. I argue that a focus on the conspiracies represented in these texts reveals connections both to other contemporary narratives and to a long tradition of antisemitic narrative that extends through The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to the global conspiracy theories of the early twenty-first century.
《马蜂窝:反犹主义、阴谋论和院长的故事
摘要:阴谋论不仅仅是一种解释形式。它们是旨在唤起情感反应的叙事。这篇文章将13世纪的盎格鲁-诺曼人的《雨果·德·林肯尼亚》和《隐修会的故事》解读为阴谋论叙事,考察它们如何利用语言和意象产生审美情绪,尤其是恐惧和厌恶。我认为,对这些文本中所代表的阴谋的关注揭示了与其他当代叙事以及反犹太主义叙事的长期传统的联系,这种叙事通过《锡安长老议定书》延伸到21世纪初的全球阴谋论。
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Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Studies in the Age of Chaucer Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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